IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee Plenary Meeting
March 2004 Tutorials
Monday, March 15, 2004
Tutorial #1
Date: Monday, March 15, 2004
Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm
Location: TBD
Title: Wireless Performance Metrics
Sponsored by: Stuart Kerry, IEEE 802.11, WG Chair
Presenters:
Don Berry, Microsoft
Gerard Goubert, University of New Hampshire
Bob Mandeville, lometrix
Fanny Mlinarsky, Azimuth Systems
Jason Trachewsky, Broadcom
The surge of wireless networking has been largely confined to the SOHO market, where performance has taken
a second place to cost. The new target for the wireless industry is the lucrative enterprise market, where
network performance translates into bottom-line advantage by directly impacting productivity. So, how well do
802.11 wireless networks support enterprise data and voice applications? Standard benchmarking techniques
developed in the wired environment won’t give the right answer simply because protocols dealing with mobility
and open air transmission do not exist in the wired world. The intricate 802.11 protocols call for a host of new
metrics. A rough count shows that wireless metrics outnumber traditional metrics five to one. This tutorial will
provide an overview of the work being done by the new WPP study group defining benchmarks to help the
vendor and corporate end user community objectively characterize the performance and interoperability of
802.11 products in the dynamic and inherently unstable wireless environment. This work aims to give the
corporate IT managers deploying wireless networks the same solid set of standard benchmarks that they have
for Ethernet today.
Tutorial #2
Date: Monday, March 15, 2004
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 pm
Location: TBD
Title: Power Line Carrier Standardization
Sponsored by: Matthew Sherman, IEEE 802, Vice Chair
Presenters:
Victor Dominguez Richards, DS2
Paul Henry, AT&T Labs – Research
Marcos Lopez, Endesa
Kenichi Hirotsu, Sumitomo Electric Industries
Power Line Carrier (PLC) is an important technology being used and considered around the world for home
networking and access initiatives. There are currently a number of standardization activities looking at PLC.
This presentation will review the current technical and market trends for PLC, existing standardization initiatives
around the world, why and when such standards are required, issues with RF interference, and what role IEEE,
and specifically IEEE 802 can play in the development of these standards.
Tutorial #3
Date: Monday, March 15, 2004
Time: 9:00 – 10:30pm
Location: TBD
Title: Education, Mentoring and Support
Sponsored by: Paul Nikolich, IEEE 802, Chair
Presenters:
Howard Frazier, Independent Consultant
David Law, Vice-Chair, IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD WG
Jennifer Longman, IEEE, Managing Director, Standards Information and Industry Publishing
This is installment 2A of the Education, Mentoring and Support program for chairs and editors of the IEEE 802
LMSC projects. In this session, we will provide a tutorial on the IEEE Standards Style Manual, the IEEE
Standards Framemaker template, and the draft creation and editing process. The tutorial will emphasize the use
of Framemaker desktop publisher software. Attendees are strongly encouraged to bring their laptop computers
with Framemaker v7.0 installed. This tutorial will concentrate on advanced editing issues and techniques.
IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee Plenary Meeting
March 2004 Tutorials
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Tutorial #4
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location: TBD
Title: 10 Gb Ethernet on installed, FDDI-grade multimode fiber
Sponsored by: Bob Grow, IEEE 802.3 WG Chair
Presenters:
David Cunningham, Agilent Technologies
Bruce Tolley, Cisco Systems
This tutorial will summarize the work of the 10GMMF Study Group to date and present the technical and
business case for an IEEE 802.3 standards project to define a single 10 Gb PMD to support installed, FDDIgrade multimode fiber:
 the problem—achieving a link distance of 300 meters on installed, FDDI-grade MMF
 various technical approaches to the problem
 distinct identity, economic feasibility, and broad marker potential
Tutorial #5
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 pm
Location: TBD
Title: Unlicensed Spread-Spectrum Retrospective
Sponsored by: Carl Stevenson, IEEE 802.18 WG Chair and
Roger Marks, IEEE 802.16 WG Chair
Presenters:
Jim Carlo, President IEEE Standards Association
Michael Marcus, Associate Chief for Technology, U.S. Federal Communications Commission
Vic Hayes, former Chair, IEEE 802.11 WG
This session will be a historical retrospective on the development of rules for unlicensed-band use of spreadspectrum radio technology. The featured speaker is Dr. Michael J. Marcus, Associate Chief for Technology at
the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Dr. Marcus' development of the original spread spectrum rules
for unlicensed bands provided the background for the success of the IEEE 802 wireless standards operating in
those bands. The session will include the presentation to Dr. Marcus of his award as IEEE Fellow, presented by
IEEE-SA President Jim Carlo. Other speakers include Vic Hayes, former Chair of the IEEE 802.11 Working
Group.
Tutorial #6
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Time: 9:00 - 10:30 pm
Location: TBD
Title: Application of mmWave-based Physical Layers in WPANs
Sponsored by: Bob Heile, IEEE 802.15, WG Chair
Presenters:
A. Akeyama, NTT Advane Technology Corp.
Reed Fisher, Oki Electric Co.
H. Ogawa, Communications Research Laboratory
Topics covered will include a brief overview of the 802.15.3-2003 WPAN, application and technical requirements
and proposed layout of a mmWave-base PHY. Included will be a discussion of radio hardware, radio
propagation, antennas and worldwide regulations.